Halloween at the Museum

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Free In-Person Event

Join us for a free night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries

• Trick-or-Treat through the museum and check out some of our spookiest specimens.

• Wear your best Halloween costume and take photos at our photo booth.

• Decorate a trick-or-treat bag.

• Visit the brand new exhibit Velvet Worms: A Fierce Hunter with a Secret Weapon in the Arthropods Gallery.
• Encounter real-life zombies: fruit flies hijacked by a brain-controlling fungus.

• Visit the exhibition Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination and explore the allure of serpents, krakens, and other mysterious creatures of the deep sea.

• Enjoy a variety of beverages for purchase (valid government ID required to consume alcoholic beverages).

• Enter a free raffle to win museum gifts and membership.

Let us know you are coming! RSVPs are encouraged, but walk-in visitors are always welcome.

Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage, 4:30–9:30 pm.

ArtsThursdays is a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA)